Posted on 03/09/2015 8:38:08 AM PDT by bestintxas
Speaking at Benedict College in South Carolina on March 6, President Obama said the Second Amendment is important, that it is part of our culture and part of who were are. Then he quickly added, But what we also have to recognize is, is that our homicide rates are so much higher than other industrialized countriesby like a mile.
So, the Second Amendment is important but
Moreover, Obama hinted that the individual right to bear armsthe very right protected by the Second Amendmentis the result of a Supreme Court interpretation. On June 22, Breitbart News reported that The Washington Post espoused this same liberal talking point, claiming that the Supreme Court created an individual right to keep and bear arms via the District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) decision.
In other words, prior to 2008, there was no individual right to keep and bear arms. It wasnt what our Founding Fathers intended and it wasnt what generation upon generation of Americans from 1791 to 2008 believed and lived by. Its all based on a decision by a group of justices.
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This topic isn’t open to debate. Obama is coming for those guns. If American citizens respond to his gun grab passively as they have done with all of Obama’s other power grabs, the story is over.
The Obama admin will not give up on the gun grab until they get their way.
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